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Songs that make the hairs on your neck stand up..

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  • red_murph
    red_murph Posts: 2,460
    Wires - Athlete (when you know the meaning behind the lyrics and it's affected you in some small way).
    Passion - Gat Decor
    Fools Gold - Stone Roses
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,436
    Enjoy The Silence (Depeche Mode) - Best song ever written
    Sharpen Up The Knives (Puressence) - Criminally underrated band, the singer has the most incredible voice I've ever heard
    Everlong (Foo Fighters) - Amazing song from an amazing band
    Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pink Floyd) - Dave Gilmour is an underrated genius
    Last Goodbye (Jeff Buckley) - Just awesome
    Can't Stand Losing You (The Police) - Could have been any one of about five Police songs really, but this is my favourite
    Unreadable Communication (Curve) - Can't believe anyone else on here has heard of them - Cuckoo is one of the best albums ever
    Hyperballad (Bjork) - Mad as a box of lightbulbs, but extremely talented - and this song is fantastic
    Street Spirit (Radiohead) - Not many songs make me want to cry, but this one does. It's beautiful
    Purity (The God Machine) - This band were amazing - sadly the bassist died of a brain haemorrhage really young, but their two albums were breathtaking. This song is the pick of the bunch
    Atlantic (Keane) - Hauntingly beautiful - with the best key change in the history of modern music halfway through
    Retread (Embrace) - Danny McNamara might not be able to sing properly, but his voice somehow works - This track isn't as well known as some of their other ones, but its beautiful
    Embarrassment (Madness) - Always loved them - and I remember listening to this again after not hearing it for years - it was especially poignant for me at the time as I was going out with a black girl and both of us were getting a lot of shit for it off her family. Lyrics are so simple, but so effective, and the song is as memorable as all their other stuff
    The Scientist (Coldplay) - Don't care how corny it is, this song is beautiful
    Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division) - How could anyone leave it out?
    How Soon Is Now (The Smiths) - Morrissey might be a twat (alright he IS a twat) but this song basically sums up my youth - pissed up in the venue, getting off with ugly slappers with this playing in the background
    Black (Pearl Jam) - Another singer who isn't technically brilliant, but Eddie Vedder's voice conveys so much emotion
    Something I Can Never Have (Nine Inch Nails) - A toss up between this and 'Hurt', but this means more to me because I listened to it a lot when I was a moody teen
  • Bcaddick
    Bcaddick Posts: 445
    Leroy Ambrose...You have taste. Anyway...

    Exit Music for a film - Radiohead, track 4 OK Computer. Simply put...AWESOME
    Citizen erased - MUSE. Totally masterful.
    Sometimes - James...oh yes
    Never Let Me Down Again (live on 101) - The brilliant Depeche
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,156
    Either this thread has turned into a list of favourite tunes, or Leroy spends half his life walking around like a Rhodesian Ridgback... :-D
  • cunningstunt87
    cunningstunt87 Posts: 1,100
    No Surprises by Radiohead and Drugs don't work by the Verve for me. Everytime!
  • Addickted2U
    Addickted2U Posts: 3,080
    Henry Irving said:

    Song for the Siren - This Mortal Coil


    Put this on a newer thread, but should be replicated here.
    The song that played a huge part in me losing my virginity!

    http://youtu.be/HFWKJ2FUiAQ

  • JaShea99
    JaShea99 Posts: 5,458
    Plan B Cast A Light
    Tupac Unconditional Love
    Neil Young Man Needs a Maid
  • A-R-T-H-U-R
    A-R-T-H-U-R Posts: 7,678
    The Last Post
  • purdis
    purdis Posts: 1,046
    MariaCAFC said:

    One by U2 - Sky played it after the Playoff Final (When they show clips at the end - only just caught it on the tape as I didn't set the recorder on LP - clearly wasn't expecting Pens) and every time I hear it, it makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up!

    http://youtu.be/ZpDQJnI4OhU
  • purdis
    purdis Posts: 1,046
    A-Ha, 'The Sun Always Shines on TV''
    Hazel O'Connor - 'Will you?' - the Sax does it for me.
    Heart 'Alone'
    Emeli Sande & Labrinth
    Four Tops, 'I Can't Help Myself'
    Four Tops, 'Baby I Need Your Lovin'
    Iggy Pop, 'I wanna be your dog'
    Isley Bros, This Old Heart of Mine'
    Jimmy Ruffin, 'Behind a Painted Smile'
    Kim Carnes, 'Bette Davis Eyes'
    Kings of Leon, 'Back Down South'
    Kings of Leon, 'Closer'
    Lionel Ritchie, 'All Night Long'
    Marvin Gaye, 'What's Goin' On'
    Moody Blues, 'Question'
    Simon & Garfunkel, 'Bridge Over Troubled Water'.
    Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush, 'Don't Give Up'
    Righteous Brothers, 'Lovin' Feelin''
    Roberta Flack, Killin' Me Softly'
    Smokey Robinson, 'The Tracks of My Tears'
    Stevie Wonder, 'Misstra Know It All'
    Trammps, 'Disco Inferno'
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  • purdis
    purdis Posts: 1,046
    A-R-T-H-U-R said:

    The Last Post

    Good call - can't be a tune out there that beats that for emotion.
  • addickfanatic
    addickfanatic Posts: 1,113
    Love will tear us apart again- joy division, bittersweet symphony- the verve, that's entertAinment- the jam, Ebola gay-OMD
  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,148
    Moonlight feels right by starbuck.
    Also hide in your shell by supertramp
    The victim by a great band called headeast.
    The clown by argent
  • brogib
    brogib Posts: 2,128
    Fix You - Contamus Choir (just like to point out at this point, I can't stand Coldplay)

    Binary Sunset - Off Star Wars ain't sure who by, John Williams maybe?

    Tucker's Ruckers - The Goads

    Intergalactic - Beasty Boys

    Superstyling - Groove Armada

    Skinhead Moonstomp - Symarip

    Get Blown Away - Ocean Colour Scene

    Strange Town - The Jam

    The Witchita Lineman - Glen Campbell

    God Only Knows - Brian Wilson

    Good Vibrations - Brian Wilson

    Walk The Line - Johnny Cash

    Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash

    Brand New Start - Sir Paul Weller

    (last threegreat song, but make me hairs stand up just coz the lyrics)

    There's loads, by Stone Roses, OCS, Neil Diamond...
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,893
    edited April 2015
    another vote for Never Let Me Down Again by Depeche Mode. Saw it live on the box in Berlin, proper hairs up.

    William Orbit-Barbers Adajio for Strings.

    Small Faces-Tin Soldier

    Poppy Factory-Stars

    there's loads of House songs that still get hairs up.
  • purdis
    purdis Posts: 1,046
    edited April 2015
    Fix You - Coldplay
    Talk - Coldplay
    Yellow - Coldplay
    Paradise - Coldplay

    Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence

    Guns'n Roses - Sweet Child - great lyrics
    Gun's Roses - November Rain
  • ken_shabby
    ken_shabby Posts: 6,256
    Perfect Day - Lou Reed
    Under Pressure - Queen David Bowie
    Heart and Soul - Joy División
    Oxygene - Jean Michel Jarre
    The Experience of Swimming - Japan
    I Should Not Dare - David Sylvian
    The Sound of the Crowd - Human League

  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,624
    Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 Op. 125 Choral Movement.
  • mid_life_crisis
    mid_life_crisis Posts: 3,263
    The Great Gig in The Sky - Pink Floyd
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    There's a few but Climbing up to the Moon by The Eels and Sing To Me by Anna Calvi get me every time
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  • boogica
    boogica Posts: 2,321
    Reach for the stars -S club 7


    Only messing
    Waterfront -Simple Minds (proper anthem wot a way to start a gig)
  • Hastingsaddick
    Hastingsaddick Posts: 4,079
    Most tracks by the Action...love Reggie Kings voice.
  • OsamaBenHamer
    OsamaBenHamer Posts: 647
    The guitar lick in the chorus of I am the Resurrection gets me every time.

    Live version of No Woman, No Cry.

    David Bowie - Five Years
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,040
    Willing by Little Feat
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,008
    JaShea99 said:

    Plan B Cast A Light
    Tupac Unconditional Love
    Neil Young Man Needs a Maid

    A-R-T-H-U-R said:

    The Last Post

    Yes, but which one ?
    Plan B, Tupac, or Neil Young ? :smile:
  • Rufus is a dogs name
    Rufus is a dogs name Posts: 1,518
    I Wanna Be Adored - Stone Roses
    And I Love Her - The Beatles
    Teardrop - Massive Attack
    Everlong - Foo Fighters
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,006
    This is the One - Stone Roses
    Gangsta Paradise - Coolio
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,164
    macarthur park - richard harris
    witchita lineman - glen campbell
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,164
    it's a mans world - james brown
  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,194
    Belong (Live at Mountain Stage) by REM
    World Leader Pretend (live at Mountain Stage) by REM
    Lose Control by Ash
    Fall On Me by REM (specifically the bridge section with Mike Mills' harmonies)

    Pretty much any time Mile Mills sings now I think about it.

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